Before we had a big libraries called kdelibs and kdepimlibs and people would complain that they were too big and so nobody outside of KDE would use them.
Now we split everything, and people complain that they are too many libraries. There is no way to make everyone happy. Note that all this packages are very small and all provides features you really want to have.
Re:Health of the KDE Community
by encryptluks2 on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:49AM
(#26992717)
I already get those with a single 4MB app though. No need to install so many.
```
sudo pacman -S kaddressbook resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (89) accounts-qml-module-0.7-3 akonadi-21.04.0-1 akonadi-calendar-21.04.0-1 akonadi-contacts-21.04.0-1 akonadi-mime-21.04.0-1 akonadi-notes-21.04.0-1 akonadi-search-21.04.0-1 attica-5.81.0-1 grantleetheme-21.04.0-1 jemalloc-1:5.2.1-3 kaccounts-integration-21.04.0-1 kactivities-5.81.0-1 kalarmcal-21.04.0-1 karchive-5.81.0-1 kauth-5.81.0-1 kbookmarks-5.81.0-1 kcalendarcore-5.81.0-1 kcalutils-21.04.0-1 kcmutils-5.81.0-1 kcodecs-5.81.0-1 kcompletion-5.81.0-1 kconfig-5.81.0-1 kconfigwidgets-5.81.0-1 kcontacts-1:5.81.0-1 kcoreaddons-5.81.0-1 kcrash-5.81.0-1 kdav-1:5.81.0-1 kdbusaddons-5.81.0-1 kdeclarative-5.81.0-1 kded-5.81.0-1 kdepim-runtime-21.04.0-1 kglobalaccel-5.81.0-1 kguiaddons-5.81.0-1 kholidays-1:5.81.0-1 ki18n-5.81.0-1 kiconthemes-5.81.0-1 kidentitymanagement-21.04.0-1 kimap-21.04.0-1 kio-5.81.0-1 kirigami2-5.81.0-1 kitemmodels-5.81.0-1 kitemviews-5.81.0-1 kjobwidgets-5.81.0-1 kldap-21.04.0-1 kmailtransport-21.04.0-1 kmbox-21.04.0-1 kmime-21.04.0-1 knewstuff-5.81.0-1 knotifications-5.81.0-1 knotifyconfig-5.81.0-1 kontactinterface-21.04.0-1 kpackage-5.81.0-1 kparts-5.81.0-1 kpimtextedit-21.04.0-1 krunner-5.81.0-1 kservice-5.81.0-1 ksmtp-21.04.0-1 ktextwidgets-5.81.0-1 kuserfeedback-1.0.0-1 kwallet-5.81.0-1 kwidgetsaddons-5.81.0-1 kxmlgui-5.81.0-1 libaccounts-glib-1.25-3 libaccounts-qt-1.16-2 libakonadi-21.04.0-1 libdmtx-0.7.5-2 libkdepim-21.04.0-1 libkgapi-21.04.0-1 libkleo-21.04.0-1 libkolabxml-1.1.6-15 mariadb-10.5.9-1 mariadb-clients-10.5.9-1 media-player-info-24-2 pimcommon-21.04.0-1 plasma-framework-5.81.0-1 prison-5.81.0-1 purpose-5.81.0-1 qgpgme-1.15.1-1 qt5-networkauth-5.15.2-1 qt5-speech-5.15.2-1 signon-kwallet-extension-21.04.0-1 signon-plugin-oauth2-0.25-1 signon-ui-0.17+20171022-2 signond-8.60-3 solid-5.81.0-1 sonnet-5.81.0-1 syntax-highlighting-5.81.0-1 threadweaver-5.81.0-1 kaddressbook-21.04.0-1
Total Download Size: 91.18 MiB Total Installed Size: 487.96 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
```
I'll have to admit it has gotten better. Before It would want to install the whole KDE desktop.